Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Brook then asked the same volunteer to read again , but to stop after each name .
2 Mark always experienced the same feelings of contentment when entering the home straight .
3 the words in the Kusaal example would , for example , have to be checked in a frame with a low tone ( Kusaal does n't have a mid tone ) immediately preceding the substitution item , to check if the words that have been marked as being lower than the high tone in the first frame do indeed have the same pitch , or if there are two levels lower than the high .
4 They , they 've suddenly had a few outbreaks of polio have n't they ?
5 So you 've obviously dropped a few marks on that .
6 Erm , now what that means is , if you ca n't answer the question and you 've only got a few lines down then sort of trying t w blur it a little bit and make it waffly so that there 's something we can point to and say that you 've written something , right ?
7 If you only get a few ideas , you 've only got a few things to look at .
8 I 've only got a few books on differentiating .
9 You 've got to pay attention to what you 're doing because you 've only got a few laps . ’
10 If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’
11 Right , okay , my boudoir , I 've just seen a few things together .
12 Hyperoid It 's Asteroids by another name , again with some additions ( although I was never any good at this one , so maybe they 've just chopped a few levels out ) .
13 They 've just reached the half way stage of the project but it 's taken them five years to get this far .
14 I 've just had a few drinks .
15 If somebody says you do n't wan na be rushed , right , that 's what you 've got ta say to them that 's just what that old dear was saying the other day , right you certainly understand that , right , you agree with them , first thing you do you always agree with them , right and then you 've just got the same sequence as I want to think about it , but just sort of make it clear , I mean what is it they actually , you know , frightened of being rushed into ?
16 Renault , who supply the £100,000 engines — changed every 400 miles — said : ‘ We 've already had a few people on to us saying they 're not going to buy our cars .
17 I 've already took a half day off flexy leave to have my driving test last week
18 ‘ We 've always used the same recipe , ’ he says .
19 I 've still got a few odds and ends that are late
20 You 'll have to excuse me now , I 've still got a few things to see to before my audience arrives .
21 I 've still got a few spares . ’
22 N ah , we 've still got a few marks on here have n't we Lynda ?
23 What 's the point of being aggressive with somebody when they 're gon na walk away feeling as if they 've just been walked all over , so you 've still got the same situation you 've got one person walking away feeling a little bit fed up and the other person not so if you talk about assertiveness in terms of aggression and in terms of submission i.e. there 's going to be a winner and there 's going to be a loser depending which way round you look at it then you still have n't quite grasped what we mean by assertiveness .
24 The fact that we 've both done the same thing — I was an actress although I 'm a writer now — is totally unimportant .
25 The same papers are read by those kids and by the coppers who nick them , and basically they 've both swallowed the same lies .
26 A mixture of something old and something new , everybody here at Club has his or her own favourite , and we 've also asked a few personalities to say a few words about their number 1 trip .
27 Yeah I was doing their printing for them and er I 've also taken a few shots for the Chronicle .
28 ‘ The problem about us , ’ said Helen , ‘ is that we 've never felt the same way about money as most other people seem to . ’
29 I have heard loose talk of people seeing things here by night , but I 've never paid the least attention , so I ca n't tell you what they claim . ’
30 Fear not , for excellent runners are once more in abundance and arms , should they be feeling the angle , need only last a few layaway moves to gain larger holds in the base of the slim upper groove .
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